lockdown Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/lockdown/ Wed, 19 Aug 2020 17:00:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://i0.wp.com/writersrebel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/index-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 lockdown Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/lockdown/ 32 32 184391167 Read: A dispatch from the French AlpsNatasha Randall https://writersrebel.com/a-dispatch-from-the-french-alps/ Thu, 13 Aug 2020 08:00:49 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=1558   There were blue tits nesting in the eaves above our front door this spring. The parent birds brought beakfuls of fat green worms and spindly flying bugs for the calling babies. We moved into a small gite, the lower floor of a chalet at the top of a small French mountain just a month [...]

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]]> 1558 Read: Animal EdenZakia Carpenter-Hall https://writersrebel.com/read-animal-eden/ Wed, 05 Aug 2020 07:26:08 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=1468   Animal Eden   It was the year of the viral video,  nature coming out of hiding. We were supposed to believe  that within weeks, animal life  had overwritten us with their joy  and reckless abandon, as if instincts  told them like radio waves signalling  through the ether that humans  are under quarantine and no [...]

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]]> 1468 Read: Birds Under LockdownNicholas Royle https://writersrebel.com/read-birds-under-lockdown/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 06:26:59 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=1299   On the last day before the hospitality sector in England locked down, my wife and I sat in a hotel garden in Cumbria watching the comings and goings at a bird feeder. The occasion was my birthday and the dinner had been booked for months. It just happened to fall on the last day [...]

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]]> 1299 Read: The Other SideRachel Edwards https://writersrebel.com/the-other-side/ Thu, 28 May 2020 15:39:56 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=303 Good news has been in short supply — save the reports of frontline heroism, community kindness and spectacular fundraising efforts — since the planet was struck by this meteorite of contagion, smashing into our world with catastrophic consequences. Our spikey sci-fi nemesis, the coronavirus COVID-19, has taken literally incalculable lives: our death-counting systems cannot keep [...]

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